updated 12:20 pm EDT, Fri October 26, 2007

AT&T delays MediaFlo

In spite of having promised its introduction by the end of the year, AT&T now says that its version of MediaFlo will not be ready until the "very early part" of 2008, according to a company spokesman, speaking with Reuters. AT&T's Mark Siegel explains that more time is needed to optimize and eliminate flaws from the service, which should provide digital broadcast TV to cellphones with rapid channel change, and no buffering. MediaFlo is owned by Qualcomm and is currently already providing service to Verizon in the US, and Vodafone abroad.